The story of Elrood

Hark!  Hark ye wee beasties and gather ’round, for it is time now for me to tell you the story of Elrood!  This is a man who has lead our tribe into glory, armed with naught but a sharpened stick and a PS3 controller.  He is a legend among his kind, which is impressive saying [...]

Sploding in 30 Seconds: XBLA Goodness

Microsoft’s summer of arcade is here!  Two of the games are out and….what’s that?  Oh, the two games I’m reviewing are NOT summer of arcade?  They’re older?  Are you questioning Faceplant’s sense of timeliness?  Well ok yeah, Enosh did just review a British crime film from 2009 but I don’t think that’s fair.  Haha that [...]

MORTAL KOMBAT!!!!!!

I used to *LOVE* Mortal Kombat back in the day.  I remember once being in a bar with my cousins while my father and uncle were deep in very adult like conversation.  I was probably about 10, so screw CONVERSING, there was an original Mortal Kombat arcade cabinet!  I was terrible at the game, but [...]

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, A Proper Review

Authors Note:  While this is a review of Cataclysm, I’m writing it from the perspective of somebody who has a pretty good idea of how WoW works already.  What I’m trying to say is that this isn’t the most MMO or WoW noob friendly review.  Actually what I’m REALLY trying to say is:  Sorry Zenestex. [...]

The Social Network

How does one define success?  Is it an external influence, be it acceptance from peers, money, or power?  Or is it more of an internal state that requires a strong sense of self-awareness and satisfaction with one’s current station?  That question is the heart of The Social Network, the “Facebook movie” as it has unsatisfactorily [...]

The Dilemma

This movie should have worked.  I’m not saying The Dilemma should have won Oscars.  There was no expectation of an absurdly high meta critic score or massive box office success.  This would be no huge monkey maker for the studio.  All that being said, going in, it had some things working for it.  Vince Vaughn [...]

The Kids Are All Right

I feel like I’ve been going down a dark road lately here at ye olde Faceplant.  Dead Space 2 and Black Swan are not the lightest entertainment propositions one can have.  So before I become like the monkey at the beginning of 28 Days Later, let’s lighten it up a bit.  I vowed to myself [...]

Black Swan

Darren Aronofsky is one weird dude.  I saw his first film, Pi, and at about the time where the human brain was just lying around on the floor, the weird idea germinated in my head.  Requiem for a Dream followed suit, although it at least had the “excuse” that all the wacked out stuff you [...]

Dead Space 2: I am still scared

I was a huge fan of the original Dead Space.  Visceral Games put together a true survival horror game instead of the action style games with creepy looking enemies that seemed to call themselves survival horror in this generation.  It was moody, brooding, and most importantly, had a great atmosphere.  So Dead Space 2 has [...]

Rock Band 3 and Music Games: More Expensive Than Harmonix

Raise your hand if a room in your house contains a plastic instrument.  My hand is up.  And since I can’t tell if anybody reading this is raising their hand or not, I’m just going to assume a bunch of you are because it helps my point.  It’s the internet, this is considered research.  So [...]